Pingdom, a website tracking service just finished a study of the downtime experienced by the top 20 Alexa ranked sites, and their conclusion: Blogger is the worst, followed by YouTube, its Google stable-mate. Year to date, the two sites have been down over 4.45 hours.
Google, which itself was down for seven minutes has been upstaged by Yahoo.com, which has zero-minutes of downtime. Microsoft sites had pretty hefty downtime as well. Big surprise in the list Comcast.com - which is now the #17 ranked site on Alexa - and it had only 3 minutes downtime.
7 comments so far
9:49 AM PT
blogger is just atrocious. even when it’s up it doesn’t work well.
1:53 PM PT
What does downtime mean exactly? I’ve had days when My Yahoo doesn’t function properly, or Y!Mail doesn’t load for a couple of hours. So to me, the notion of Y! being up 100% of the time is silly. Seems to me that these measurements are subjective or not properly defined.
2:02 PM PT
ow long does youtube downtime last? Because I have not noticed any downtime from YTube in the past couple of weeks. Maybe because I don’t check Ytube very often.
3:57 PM PT
I find yahoo is always down…go figure.
6:45 PM PT
I think looking at just downtime does not show the complete picture. Google SERPs load much much faster than Yahoo or MSN. Personally, I don’t find much of a difference in search results between Yahoo and Google, but since Yahoo takes that extra few seconds to load, I find myself going to Google every time. I think load time is a much better indicator of user experience given these minuscule downtimes.
12:04 PM PT
I go to Scroogle everytime! I don’t find Google or Yahoo to be worth it! Anyone that keeps my personal data on file for unspecified amounts of time and does god knows what with it, is not a candidate for my personal use. At all!
9:46 PM PT
[...] They could be stuck using Google’s Blogger, which — along with YouTube — is the worst offender for downtime among Alexa’s top-20 sites. [...]
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